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malkamalka	March 21, 2025, 9:21pm
Table Wine Drinker Posts: 921 Posts Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 83.41% Rep Score: +2 / 0 Approval: +160 Gold Stars: 24	Sad to report that Bill Osborne (BillO), passed away early on Friday morning NSW time. BillO was Co founder of Grimsby Town International Supporters Club (GTISC) and The Electronic Fishcake (forerunner of The Fishy), in 1998. RIP BillO "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." (Jimi Hendrix)
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forza ivano	March 21, 2025, 9:22pm
Exile Posts: 15,608 Posts Per Day: 2.34 Reputation: 76.88% Rep Score: +72 / -22 Approval: +17,245 Gold Stars: 391	Oh no, great character.  RIP Billo
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Plankton	March 21, 2025, 9:40pm
Fine Wine Drinker Posts: 1,014 Posts Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 78.35% Rep Score: +3 / -1 Approval: +1,379 Gold Stars: 42	I always appreciated the The Electronic Fishcake in its early days. It was way ahead of its time for footie club discussion. RIP BillO
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Poojah	March 21, 2025, 9:53pm
Special Brew Drinker Posts: 9,688 Posts Per Day: 1.50 Reputation: 84.63% Rep Score: +80 / -14 Approval: +39,477 Gold Stars: 2,030	Sad news. I was probably 12 or 13 when I first started posting on here, or at least the mailing list that ran adjacently at the time. The weird thing that sticks in my mind is his old profile picture; of him at the old Velodrome in Marseille at the 98 World Cup. I could be badly misremembering, it’s a 25 year old memory. But something like that, anyway. RIP Billo. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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GrimRob	March 21, 2025, 9:58pm
Moderator Posts: 13,521 Posts Per Day: 2.03 Reputation: 69.92% Rep Score: +76 / -34 Approval: +15,575 Gold Stars: 207	Billo was the Abraham figure of the Fishy, and indeed the whole online GTFC presence. He predated even the official GTFC site by quite a few years. His mailing list was my entry point into GTFC online. He hasn't participated for quite a few years, but without him the club's history would have taken a different course. I met him a few times in the week he was here from Australia in 2000, and prior to that spend many an hour with on ICQ. A sad day, but I am sure he led a very full life, and never forgot his origins. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.   ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Plankton	March 21, 2025, 10:10pm
Fine Wine Drinker Posts: 1,014 Posts Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 78.35% Rep Score: +3 / -1 Approval: +1,379 Gold Stars: 42	Quoted from GrimRob Billo was the Abraham figure of the Fishy, and indeed the whole online GTFC presence. He predated even the official GTFC site by quite a few years. His mailing list was my entry point into GTFC online. He hasn't participated for quite a few years, but without him the club's history would have taken a different course. I met him a few times in the week he was here from Australia in 2000, and prior to that spend many an hour with on ICQ. A sad day, but I am sure he led a very full life, and never forgot his origins. Blimey, ICQ. Now that's a blast from the past. I feel Grimsby as a community was way ahead of other bigger clubs in the early days.
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Maringer	March 21, 2025, 10:13pm
Barley Wine Drinker Posts: 14,039 Posts Per Day: 2.10 Reputation: 81.39% Rep Score: +62 / -14 Approval: +23,305 Gold Stars: 377	Crikey, I'd forgotten about him. Never met him but always remember his enthusiasm as an (extreme!) exile. RIP.
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cardiffmariner	March 21, 2025, 10:39pm
Table Wine Drinker Posts: 746 Posts Per Day: 0.11 Reputation: 84.69% Rep Score: +14 / -2 Approval: +1,528 Gold Stars: 27	Sad to hear this. The Electronic Fishcake was a real step forward in terms of bringing scattered Town fans together. Grimrob described him as Abrahamic and there was definitely something of the originator there. RIP Billo.
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louth_in_the_south	March 21, 2025, 11:12pm
Exile Posts: 4,460 Posts Per Day: 0.67 Reputation: 70.64% Rep Score: +26 / -12 Location: Forest Row Approval: +6,344 Gold Stars: 134	A famous name RIP Billo Lower F5
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Limerick Mariner	March 22, 2025, 1:50am
Whiskey Drinker Posts: 4,751 Posts Per Day: 0.72 Reputation: 81.46% Rep Score: +14 / -3 Location: Melton Mowbray Approval: +8,794 Gold Stars: 220	Very saddened by this, much like when we lost Steve Plowes. RIP Billo - he was  like founding father for all things GTFC online with that original email list that brought so many of us exiles in touch with each other. Met him when he was over from Oz one time - away at Watford in the double Wembley season.
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